Google’s First Tablet – The “Nexus” Tablet Revealed

As reported earlier by the team at Gizmodo Australia, this is the widely rumoured Google Nexus Tablet.

A highly reported and anticipated product, as it marks the first time Google have put their name to a tablet, following in the name sake of the Nexus family of Google branded mobile phones.

It is also an important step for the online Giant to be putting its name to Hardware as aswell as Software, a move towards integration of the two Worlds as we are also seeing from Microsoft with the Surface tablet and of course Apple.

Pricing is expected to be at the USD$199 price point for the 8GB version and possibly around the USD$250 price point for a 16GB model.

Full specifications and pricing will be detailed at Google I/O 2012 running from June 27th to 29th in San Francisco.

Here is what we do know so far though, courtesy of some leaked benchmarking screenshots:

We are anticipating the Nexus Tablet to be the World’s first launch of the new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system which combined with the Quad Core Tegra 3 processor and A9 GPU, will be a real screamer.

The tablet is also anticipated initially to launch in wifi only models, with 3G or LTE variants coming online later in the product’s lifespan.

Certainly we are anticipating this to be a landmark release for Google, and also Asus who will be the manufacturing partner.

We will bring you more up to date news on the release once confirmed at I/O in the next day or two.